Student Summaries:
Exploring the Generational Curriculum


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Jill M Umetsu: jumetsu@hawaii.edu

Hi everyone, this is my summary of the generational curriculum:

When I first went to the generational curriculum on Dr. James' homepage I thought it was interesting. It was pretty neat to see all the students in the previous generations. I think it goes back two and a half years or five semesters, that is a long ways back. And to think that it is still up there for other students to look at is pretty amazing. Actually anyone can still look at those pages, if they know the address or happens to find it in the search engine. The grandchildren of those students will be able to read their pages.
The homepages of each generation are all different. As the generations get older they add on more things. From the first generation you can see the differences in the way the class lists are set up. The set up for generation one just lists all the names of the students and has a couple of links. Generation two starts to look like the set up for the rest of the generations. It has more links and some graphics. I think in generation 3 they tried something different because it looks different from the previous generations. It was set to have support groups and each student took a topic for their own homepage. They also had a picture of the class. Generation 4 looks like generation 2 so it was just for generation 3 that something different was done.
The students' homepages have also changed. It seems that from generation 3 the students start to use more graphics on their pages. The topics of the generations are all basically the same with slight variations.
I think that having all the generations on the computer like how it is now is a great idea. These pages will be up for a long time for everyone to use and benefit from.
Bye, Jill


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Mary Helen Aldana: aldana@hawaii.edu

Hello everybody!
I explored the generational curriculum and this really helped me to get a better understanding of what it is that we will be doing. There were some very helpful instructions and using HTML and I had fun looking at all the work that the other generations have completed. I even printed a couple of things that resembled tutorials on how to put web pages up. All of this was very helpful informations which I got from browsing. It is kind of neat to think that next year at this time, some future generation will be looking at our web sites and will be learning something new from us. For those of you who have not had a chance to explore the generational curriculum, I advise that you do very soon. Alot of what we are doing now, may not make sense, but you get a general idea of what it is that our work is leading up to.
A couple of students from past generations even offer help it you need it. I thought that was really cool. When you read the past generational curriculum that other students have completed, the concept traffic psychology begins to make a little bit more sense, and actually it is very interesting. The driving personality makeover looks especially interesting.
Don't forget to look at the different styles of backgrounds and icons that students are using. Remember to get neat ideas from them. I have to go now because there is another class coming in, but if you haven't gone to the generational curriculum do it now!


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Jeanette Naho Knutson: knutson@hawaii.edu

Wow, talk about high-tech! Am I really going to be doing that as well? Somehow I just can't see it right now...Anyway, I looked through the generational curriculum and the main thing that I noticed was the improvement on the students' parts over the semesters. The first couple generations were rather simple, although it was still a lot more than I could do in a lifetime...on the otherhand, the generations right before us were doing some real funky stuff with their home pages and everything. I have to say that I was really impressed. The really cool thing is that these home pages will always live on in the computer world, (which we all know will take the place for a lot of things in the very near future) so that our future generation will be able to see what we contributed as students. That's the really fascinating part...that our work will remain untouched and preserved for all to see, from any part of the world, at any time. I don't know about you guys, but as for me, someone who is totally without a doubt computer illiterate, it never dawned on me to look at it in that way. Gone are the days when old decrepit works of art with fading yellow pages will have to be restored in a museum, now it's high tech and away we go into the future. It's kind of scary though, because it takes away from the humanistic side of things...is this all that's going to be left of us after we all leave this planet? I guess we better leave a good impression then huh? Anyway back to the subject at hand, I found the generational curriculum very interesting and hopefully look forward to creating a home page that's equally interesting. Good luck to all, (I know that I really need it)...Bye all...

jeanette knutson
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Anthony SM Chung: aschung@hawaii.edu

Hello, my fellow classmates. So how is everybody doing on their exercises? Well, I just finished my surfing on the Gennerational Curriculum and these are some of my reations on the internet. First of all, one of the first things that I clicked on was the topic index. I was so amazed and impressed by the large amount of topics to choose from. The titles are very descriptive and interesting. Some of the topics that I was curious about was the Behavioral Self-Witnessing Methodology in Traffic, Affective and Cognitive Processes Learning the Internet (Cybercommunity), and Spritual Psychology. Within the first topic I picked, there were some helpful hints like the Three Step Program for a Healthier, More Zestful Traffic Life and the self-witnessing process. Because this is a Traffic Psychology class, I thought this site was very useful to get an idea about what this class is really about.
Moving on to the Gennerational Curriculum, I felt like I knew these students personally just by reading their reports. These reports were very different and unique and it has provided me with a wide range of their experiences. I consider using the internet and Gennerational Curriculum to be our current future. This is a great opportunity for students to work on a project, publish it, and have it remain there for students to work on a project, publish it, and have it remain there for their children or grandchildren to read. It is great to see this as a continuum because a reader, say ten years from now, will be able to get a grasp of how things have changed throughout the years in the way students write, their experiences, and any memorable events in the past.
Because this is my second year working with the internet and it feels great to share a piece of myself and take part of these gennerations. I hope this will be another experience that will be productive and enjoyable in which I can contribute to this curriculum again. Well, I guess I will be ending this soon so you don't have to read too long and I'll be seeing the rest of you in class.

Sincerely, Anthony Chung


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Michelle Robinol Lagunoy: lagunoy@hawaii.edu

Hi guys and gals..... Well, i've just exlored the Generational Curriculum and I must say there's a massive amount of information!! It's so high-tech that so much information can be saved and shared with the whole entire world with just the click of a button. What's more unique is that all the research that other students have done before us will still be there for future generations to see. Hopfully, by reading what everyone else has done, by taking this class, and by getting all the help I can...hint, hint ;)... who knows maybe someday someone will be reading something I wrote.
After reading the tons and tons of information on traffic psychology, the two things I found interesting were the pages on Swedenborg Psychology and the fact that I can read up on other students' work.
Although Swedenborg Psychology didn't deal with traffic psychology I was intrigued on how psychology can have moral aspects as well as mental. It contained short stories of how psychology can help turn people's lives by around using religion. I thought the stories presented an alternative to the regular text book psychology that we learn in school. However, now that i've read about Sweden Psychology there so much more ways to approach this topic of mental behavior than I thought there was. With all the techicalities that pscyhology has, i'm relived that it also has it's morals and values side too.
As for being able to explore other students' work, it will come in handy when I set up my own home page. When I look at people's home pages, it seems as if it didn't look that hard to do at all. I guess it took some time, though. They look so professional! I hope I will be able to make one as well, but I guess I have to start somewhere. Maybe with a little patience, a little creativity, and a whole lot of time, i'll be able to create my very own.

See ya' all in class...
Michelle Lagunoy


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Phuong Phan Wataoka: pwataoka@hawaii.edu

Hi everyone, Surfing through the Generational Curriculum, I was impressed with the amount of information, especially the updated materials. Everything advanced within just one semester. When I took Psy 409 during Summer 96, I did not have a site with Alta Vista to introduce my reports and homepage like how the 4th Generation did. It's nice to see how future generation advanced from previous generation.
I found Dr. James's list of publications interesting. I learned a little more about Dr. James's different areas of study. My favorite place to visit was his Swedenborge Home Page. It has variety of topics to browse. I like the fact that I can use the Magellan search engine to find specific subtopic in this site. I also like Diane Nahl's Search Index. It is a good site to find cute gif and other goodies. The Tour Guides site was informative and gave me a lot of ideas about designing home page. Overall, I enjoyed reading students'generational reports and the principles of Traffic Psychology the most. Every author had something special to share. Although it took me a long time to go through all these sites, it was an educational experience for me.


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Cheryl K Andaya: candaya@hawaii.edu

This is kind of late but better late than never... Before I took this class, I had no knowledge of the internet. I simply thought that it was used by smart people with no lives. Boy was I wrong!!! When my younger brother started using it and was excited about it, I knew that I was missing out. So when I took this class, although I was intimidated, I was really excited. Man, this stuff isn't easy.
Anyways, `kay pau vent. I just got through checking out the Generational Curriculum. Whoa!!!! Impressive! I could really see the difference between the past generations and the more recent ones. Generation three and four have more elaborate home pages. The complexity of the pages increase as the generations go on. My home page is a joke next to theirs and I was really excited about putting mine's up. :( Oh well, maybe one day I'll get the hang of this and put up a better home page. I really liked the images they used to decorate their pages. It made their pages look really interesting. I wanted to check everything out.
The greatest thing that really hit me was the fact that the works of these students will be still be up even after they are gone. They are also still here to help provide help with people who are lost just like me. :) They can keep adding and perfecting their pages as the years go on and technology advances. Perhaps in a couple of years I too will be able to put little pictures and stuff on my page so keep checking up on me! :) Well, I hope this is a page. E-mail me candaya@hawaii.edu. Talk to you all later! K-den-Kay-bye!!!
cheryl andaya :@) Aloha mai kakou!


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